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Against the loveless world : a novel / Susan Abulhawa.

As Nahr sits, locked away in solitary confinement, she spends her days reflecting on the dramatic events that landed her in prison in a country she barely knows. Born in Kuwait in the 70s to Palestinian refugees, she dreamed of falling in love with the perfect man, raising children, and possibly opening her own beauty salon. Instead, the man she thinks she loves jilts her after a brief marriage, her family teeters on the brink of poverty, she's forced to prostitute herself, and the US invasion of Iraq makes her a refugee, as her parents had been. After trekking through another temporary home in Jordan, she lands in Palestine, where she finally makes a home, falls in love, and her destiny unfolds under Israeli occupation.

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Adult fiction   Earlville Branch . . Available .  
C9009696125 F ABU
Adult fiction   Smithfield Branch . . Available .  
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ISBN 9781526618795
1526618796
9781526618801
152661880X
Author Abulhawa, Susan author.
Title Against the loveless world : a novel / Susan Abulhawa.
Edition First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Published London : Bloomsbury Circus, 2020.
Physical description xviii, 366 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary As Nahr sits, locked away in solitary confinement, she spends her days reflecting on the dramatic events that landed her in prison in a country she barely knows. Born in Kuwait in the 70s to Palestinian refugees, she dreamed of falling in love with the perfect man, raising children, and possibly opening her own beauty salon. Instead, the man she thinks she loves jilts her after a brief marriage, her family teeters on the brink of poverty, she's forced to prostitute herself, and the US invasion of Iraq makes her a refugee, as her parents had been. After trekking through another temporary home in Jordan, she lands in Palestine, where she finally makes a home, falls in love, and her destiny unfolds under Israeli occupation.
Subject Women political prisoners -- Israel -- Fiction
Abandoned wives -- Fiction
Prisons -- Fiction
Solitary confinement -- Fiction
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Families -- Fiction
Poverty -- Fiction
Refugees -- Fiction
Prisoners, Palestinian Arab -- Israel -- Fiction
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